What ֤ means
It guides Biblical Hebrew chant and groups words.
Mahpakh is one of the teamim, Hebrew Bible reading accents also called trop—not a vowel. As a conjunctive accent, it links a word to Pashta, a separating accent.
Jewish scribes called Masoretes developed written reading cues. Full vowel-marking systems appear to have developed in the seventh and eighth centuries; written accents were fully developed in ninth-century manuscripts. Babylonian and Palestinian marks sat above letters; Tiberian notation became standard.
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Who writes ֤
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How to type or find ֤
- Search it as
- mahpakh · mahpach · mehuppakh · trop · teamim
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
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\05A4Raw Hebrew text
Enter ֤ after the Hebrew letter it marks; alone, it may appear with a dotted circle.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
֤
HTML hex
֤
CSS content
content: "\05A4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D6%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.